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Management doesn't care. Management doesn't read this or really even understand what a microservice is. They only know their VP told them to use them and they are the current hot stuff.

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I'll be honest I get pretty sick of these types of "management doesn't care" comments. Not because they're wrong but because they ignore the obvious solution.

If someone at VP-level is making low-level tech decisions, GTFO. If your non-technical executive management even wants to know what the low-level tech driving their business is, GTFO. If your manager, Director, VP, execs, etc will not listen to honest, calm "we really don't need ________ because {5 rational, evidence-backed reasons}," GTFO.

This, but also - these arguments tend to be very one-sided. The implication is that engineers would always do the right thing if pesky management just got out of the way. Is that true sometimes? Of course, there are plenty of shit management teams in the world. There are also plenty of engineers that, left undirected, would add unnecessary scope, introduce unnecessary technology, and create different types of problems.

If there really was one answer, and the answer was just as simple as "get rid of the whole management team, and you'll have a much better product at the end" then I have to imagine companies would have started doing this already. My experience being on both sides of this coin in my career is that: it's just not that easy.

Management shouldn't care about the stack because that isn't management's job. That's the IT Department's job. The scope of the project is management's job, as is the budget; the friction comes when they want to eat elephant on a dormouse budget, which is a good time for an IT staffer to leave if management is intransigent about refusing to understand trade-offs, but it's also the IT Department's job to explain costs and benefits in a way the non-technical can understand.

If the CEO is the lead developer and the head of IT and the CFO what signs all them checks, that's obviously different, and in that case everyone should probably understand everything. Otherwise, ask yourself how deep management gets into the minutiae of washing the toilets.

GTFO is easier said than done during these times. Jobs are about picking the set of awfulness one can tolerate. Microservices are one of the lesser awful because they multiple the work by 10x. Management is probably picking microservices because they want a huge team so they can get a promo. Believe me, I know the awful I am putting up with. I just hit 20 years and management doesn't want to know what I think. In fact four months into the job I've had probably 2 opportunities to talk tech with the manager, but I won't, because they picked the architecture and told me about it through Jira tasks.

yes they will not mostly care and will insist on microservices, but they will not ask for the distributed transaction, I will always try to get the thing done by a batch process instead of services calling each other.

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